Two men have been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment in Malawi after being found guilty of murdering an albino Davis Fretcher Machinjiri a week ago. The two heard through state prosecutor assistant Superintendent Patrick Bean Chambuluka that Vuto Biswick and Emmanuel Robert on the 23 April 2016 at Chimoto village in the area of traditional […]
Malawi Police in Phalombe district have arrested three people suspected to have brutally killed a 28-year-old woman and chopped off her breasts. The victim, Jennipher Namusiyo of Gwembere village, T/A Mkhumba in the district was attacked and killed in the wee hours of Saturday morning while on her way to seek medication from a traditional healer in […]
Since 2014, Malawi has reported more than 50 cases of abduction, killing and digging of graves of people with albinism. So far, victims of this barbaric acts have been murdered and parts of their body mutilated. The Malawi Government has since condemned the killing of people with albinism. Local civil society organisations have conducted campaigns […]
The United Nations’ top expert on albinism said on Friday in Lilongwe that people with albinism in Malawi are at risk of “systemic extinction” if they continue to be murdered for their body parts for use in witchcraft. Ikponwosa Ero, herself an albino, people with albinism are “an endangered people group facing a risk of […]
An albino bone market agents in Lilongwe offered K1.1 billion (about $1.5million) to Gerald Phiri, convicted of the murder of his 21-year-old albino niece Eneless Nkhata at Madisi in Dowa mid this month, Malawi Police chief has been told at a special hearing. Inspector General (IG) of Police Lexten Kachama and Minister of Home Affairs […]
Malawi Police in Kasungu have recovered bones believed to belong to a year and eleven month child who reportedly went missing on the fourth of last month, Nyasa Times has learnt. Reports indicate that nine days later, the skull, teeth, clothes and napkin that belonged to the missing girl were found in the hills of […]
The United Nations envoy on people with albinism has said that sensitization on the rights of people with albinism is the main solution to end the senseless killings targeted at them. The envoy Ikponwosa Ero was speaking at University of Malawi’s Chancellor College law faculty boardroom on during a meeting with law students conducting disability […]
Malawi Police have confirmed the arrest of 10 men for murdering a 21-year-old albino woman as a United Nations team conducts a two-week assessment after a series of similar killings. At least eight albinos have been murdered in the last two years, reportedly for their bones that are used in witchcraft rituals. “They dragged the […]
Malawi Police in Kasungu have launched an intensive campaign against the killings of people with albinism and the launch took place on Wednesday in Kapelera village where the last, so far, two year old girl was abducted from her sleeping mat and brutally murdered. Kasungu Police Station office Ax Muwanya said the law enforcers partnered […]
People with albinism on Sunday gathered in Kasungu to commemorate the life of two year old girl killed last month because of her albinism status. Led by Boniface Massa, chairman of the Association of People Living with Albinism, the light skinned people held prayers and sang hymns at Chaziya Village in Chief Kapelera Village as […]
Police in Kasungu have arrested father to a two year old albino girl in the district whose skull, teeth and clothes were found on Wednesday two weeks after she disappeared from her home. Kasungu police deputy spokesperson Harry Namwaza confirmed the arrest of the father and his alleged accomplice in connection with the murder of […]
United Nations (UN) Independent Expert, Ikponwosa Ero will carry out a monitoring visit in the country from 18 to 29 April 2016 to assess the human rights situation of people with albinism. Malawi will be the first country to be visited ever by the UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons […]
Malawi Police are on intensive manhunt for unknown people who have abducted a two year girl with albinism in the tobacco growing district of Kasungu. Police spokesman in Kasungu Edna Mzingwitsa said Witney Chilumpha was taken away from a sleeping place she shared with her mother in Chidziyaa Village, Chief Kapeleru’s area in the district. […]
Presbyterian churches top council, the CCAP General Assembly says the current spate of albino killings and mob justice could be as a result of social problems affecting Malawi including lack of development. CCAP General Assembly Moderator Timothy Nyasulu said this after meeting President Peter Mutharika Thursday in Blantyre. Nyasulu said the government must scale up […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has renewed his vows to ensure that his government will punish those behind a series of albino killings following attacks from human body parts sellers. The latest case was the beheading of a boy in Machinga District. Mutharika said the attacks and killings of the people living with albinism has brought […]
Malawi Police in eastern district of Machinga are holding an uncle to a slain nine year old boy with albinism whose body is still missing after his severed head was found wrapped in a piece of cloth in another village. Police in Machinga confirmed the arrest of Elias Chatha, an uncle to murdered Henry Mokoshoni. […]
Few days ago I had an opportunity to closely work and plan with people with Albinism for the first time in years. How impressed I was with them as I learnt a lot about their humility, humane, humbleness, care and intellect. But my interaction with them is totally different to what is going on in […]
Government has finally identified a special legal counsel who will prosecute all attack cases of people with albinism. Ministry of Gender principal secretary Mary Shaba said the special legal counsel works for the ministry of justice and will ensure stiff penalties for those who attack or kill persons with albinism. “In the past, we lost […]